AuldLangSyne

will remember information about friends and display it in your friends list while they are offline.

allows you to write short notes about these friends.

allows you to back up and restore your friends list.

allows you to synchronize your friends list between characters. (This is disabled by default, mind you.)

provides a FuBar plugin with all this information, all sortable, with configurable colors. (You can also use the plugin's menu to configure the rest of AuldLangSyne.)

AuldLangSyne is modular. Any and all parts of it can be disabled if you don't want them around.

Things this does better than CT_PlayerNotes:

Notes can be set to display when a player logs on, and in tooltips for that player.

You can have different notes for characters with the same name on different servers.

Things this does better than FriendsFacts:

Has a "compact" mode, showing all the info on one line, and the note on the next.

Colors class names in the friends list.

Has options to adjust which bits of friend info get displayed.

Has been updated for recent patches. Oh yes, I went there.

I wrote this because CT_PlayerNotes was the last CTMod I was using, and I wanted to get some practice writing a non-FuBar Ace2 addon. So this resulted. Yes, I know, it's derivative. But I think I do a better job than either of the inspirations.

If you already use CT_PlayerNotes, load the game with both addons enabled, and type "/auld data ctimport" to load its notes. (Due to the way CT_PlayerNotes stores its data, you will have to do this once for each character whose friends you have made notes on.)

Documentation for the friends list tag syntax can be found here: http://wowace.com/wiki/AuldLangSyne

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Auld Lang Syne is the name of a song, mostly sung around New Years Eve, whose opening line goes "should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind." (Literally, "auld lang syne' translates from Scots as "old long since", but may be better rendered as "times gone by".)

Stop notes flowing down in the fubar plugin if the character in question has no note.

Don't try to add the current character to the friends list while syncing.

1.1.42583

Modularize.

Add FuBar plugin.

Major changes were made. This might be subtly broken in some way. Other addons that think they know things about ALS' interior no longer will.

1.1.36304

Update for 2.1.

Bugfix when syncing friends.

1.1.29385

Add friend list syncing. (If you have a total of more than 50 friends between all your characters, this will complain and not work ideally.)

Add new slash-commands:

/fnote. Usage: "/fnote <player name> <note text>". Adds a note to an arbitrary player name. This note will appear in that player's tooltip and whenever they're /who'd. (If called with just "/fnote <player name>", all the notes for that player will print out.)

/fnotedel, for removing a generic note from a player. Usage: "/fnotedel <playername>".

Just wanted to chime in with those hoping you get round to fixing this addon soon. This is one of my favourite addons, and I too feel strangely blind without it. It's not my intention to rush or pressure, though. You've been doing great work so far, and we'll all be happy when you've found the time to fix this. ^^

__________________Just remember... if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

Not likely to be fixed in time for 4.0.1, intending to rewrite this but nothing usable will be ready by the time 4.0.1 hits. Sorry, only had a little over a month to get addons ready for Cata and this one took the lowest priority.

Originally posted by Maelynn
I asked him to relog to SCII to see if it'd happen again, and it did. So as long as he is logged into that game, my ALS doesn't work properly. Can you fix this, please? [/b]

Tonight my boyfriend installed his StarCraftII game and logged in there to check it out a bit. I could see him log on through the RealID toaster that popped up and the message printed in my chat window, and automatically I hovered my mouse over the ALS minimap button. Then the following error occured:

Thank you so much for keeping this addon up to date! I used FriendsFacts until 3.3.5 and missed them when the patch broke it. This addon does the same thing better, and adds even more information that is valuable to me. I also used Friend/Ignore Share, but a) it is bugged in that it can't remove ignored people form other servers from the list, and b) I don't want to share my ignore lists anyway.